Isaac Stern (violin)
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Peter Mountain )
Conductor, John Pritchard
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Part 1
Edinburgh Festival Edition including:
J.G. Weightman on the Roger Planchon Company's production of Les Trois Mousguetaires
Donald Mitchell on the three one-act operas-including the British premiere of Poulenc's La Voix Humaine-performed by Glyndebourne Opera
John Bowen on the Fringe productions
Part 2
(first performance)
A programme of poems by fiVe American poets of the 'forties
Robert Bly , Edgar Bowers
Donald Justice , James Merrill
James Wright
Introduced by Donald Hall
Read by Guy Kingsley Poynter and the poets themselves
A programme of his theatre songs sung by his widow, Lotte Lenya on gramophone records
Introduced by David Drew